On Saturday's The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW host Catherine Rampell made a stunning admission, recalling that 90 percent of the anti-Semitic comments she receives comes from the left. This revelation came as she made an unusual effort to provide balance during a segment focused on anti-Semitism within the Republican party.
MICHELLE GOLDBERG: Well, I think we have to make a distinction because I think you have a lot of gutter bigotry institutionalized in the Republican party, right? Certainly you have wild Islamophobia by people -- people like Andy Ogles and Randy Fine. These people, I think, especially the right-wing Jews, somehow got the impression that they could legitimize this and yet hold the line on anti-Semitism -- which was, just on their own terms, a terrible bet. We haven't seen this kind of hardcore anti-Semitism make its way into electoral politics, but I just think it's a matter of time when you look at where the young -- where young people in the party are, you know, if you -- and it was interesting to me because I think we all know this.
You know, we see surveys, we read about those group chats, we read about, you know, just recently, a young Republicans chapter at a Florida college was shut down because of their anti-Semitism. It's one thing to kind of read it and know that it's online, and it's another thing to be in a room full of people who are talking about it openly, and to kind of see the way it moves from the internet and the dark corners of the internet to, you know, a kind of banquet room at a country club. And I just think that, you know, I don't look, I don't think James Fishback is ever going to be governor, but this is a demographic that is eventually going to be the future of the Republican party.
RAMPELL: I do want to be careful that we make clear that it's not only in the Republican party where this is a problem. There are -- there is rising anti-Semitism on the left as well. I can tell you, since I joined this network, 90 percent of the anti-Semitic comments that I get are from the left. So I do want to make sure that we are like very clear that it's bad, whatever, whatever partisan alignment we are talking about.
GOLDBERG: I think it looks -- I think it looks -- I mean, in my experience, it looks quite different. I mean, I don't -- I don't --
RAMPELL: I mean, you should have seen my inbox
